NEW challenges for the NEW year..and what I’m into lately

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Happy NEW year! (How can it be Jan 10th already!?!)

I don’t particularly do “resolutions” but I do like a good challenge. It makes things fun. So here are my 2025 challenges:

Reading challenges:

Read at least 52 books

Read 12 books in the 12 different time periods suggested at “When Are Your Reading Challenge)

Read all books by a certain author (I think my best shot at doing this is reading all of Susan Meissner’s books).

Travel challenges:

I already have my travel challenges ongoing. Visiting 100 waterfalls and all of the National Parks. We’ll be doing quite a bit of traveling this year, so I’m sure it will be easy to add to these lists, but here are a few marked for this year:

Visit Acadia NP, New River Gorge NP, Indiana Dunes NP, Cuyahoga Valley NP, Shenandoah NP and Gateway Arch NP.

And of course, visiting Iguazu Falls is happening this year. Yay!

Physical challenges:

Do another (or multiple) 30-day steps challenge (might be easy as we’re hiking to waterfalls!).

Do a 30-day yoga challenge

Ride on 20 (NEW-to-you) bike trails.

And lastly, what am I into???

Junk journals and art journals! I LOVE looking on Pinterest at creative art journals and watching videos about making junk journals. I’ve got one of each started (one art journal and one junk journal). My plan is for the junk journal to be vintage looking and I’ll be answering questions from a book my son gave me a few years ago called, “Tell me your story, MOM”. The art journal will be more vibrant and I will do some decoupage, watercolor, digital art, and other types of art. I created all of the images in this post with AI (Midjourney). I will use the image above as a focal point in one of my collages. That might seem like cheating, but anything goes in my journals, haha!

That’s it for my 2025 plans. My interests might change next week and I might be into something totally NEW and different! I’ll let you know. Maybe sometime I should do a blogging challenge and try to update this site a bit more regularly, haha! Anyway, I hope you have a fantastic day and that you get to learn or do something NEW today! Take care!

11 thoughts on “NEW challenges for the NEW year..and what I’m into lately”

  3. Those are some good challenges. I think I could manage 52 books in a year, but not much more than that. I used to like reading all the books by one author (Ann Tyler is one), but I’ve fallen off on that for some reason. You’ll have to post about Cuyahoga NP – I may have told you we went there in the fall and had a good hike. We were on our way to Pittsburgh and stopped at the park before we got on the road, so it was a short visit. Happy reading!

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  4. I have never heard of junk journal so I just looked it up. What a great idea! I am so very happy you posted because I think your photos are some of the best I have ever seen. Seriously! Enjoy your time as you do your 2025 challenges.

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  6. I enjoy journaling/scrapbooking. I am at my journal right now and hope to write a daily prompt as soon as I get off my iPad.
    When you go to Cuyahoga Valley NP… look for Brandywine Falls! I use to live near there.
    Great challenges!
    Happy New Year!

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